LUPC, acting as the Consortium, is working with the other Universities Purchasing Consortia (UPCs) listed below, and their respective Member Institutions, to establish a National Framework Agreement for the Provision of an eProcurement System across England, Wales,

Northern Ireland and Scotland:

London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC)

http://www.lupc.ac.uk/list-of-members.html

Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC)

https://www.supc.ac.uk/about-us/our-members/our-members

North East Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC)

http://www.neupc.ac.uk/our-members

North West Universities Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC)

http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members

Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC)

http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/members

Higher Education Purchasing Consortium Wales (HEPCW)

http://www.hepcw.ac.uk/

Ensemble Purchasing

http://www.ensemblepurchasing.ac.uk/about-us.php

The service to be provided is an eProcurement System, which is broken down into multiple modules and has a complete solution option.

The modules are as follows:

— eTendering,

— eEvaluation,

— eAuction,

— DPS,

— eContract Management.

This procurement also includes the transfer of data from the Buying organisation's incumbent eProcurement System and post-implementation services of training, consultancy and customer support.

Suppliers will be required to be compliant with ISO20071 and GDPR 2018.